3rd century
Encyclopedia : 3 : 3R : 3RD : 3rd century
| Centuries: | 2nd century - 3rd century - 4th century |
| Decades: | 200s 210s 220s 230s 240s 250s 260s 270s 280s 290s |
Contents
Overview
Events
- 212: Constitutio Antoniniana grants citizenship to all free Roman men
- 212-216: Baths of Caracalla
- 230-232: Sassanid dynasty of Persia launches a war to reconquer lost lands in the Roman east
- 235-284: Crisis of the Third Century shakes Roman Empire
- 250-538: Kofun era, the first part of the Yamato period in Japan
- 258: Valerian's Massacre of Christians
- 260: Roman Emperor Valerian I is taken captive by Shapur I of Persia
- 184-280: Period of the Three Kingdoms
- 280-420: Jin Dynasty (265-420) of China
- Sarnath becomes a center of Buddhist arts in India
- Diffusion of maize as a food crop from Mexico into North America begins
- The Kingdom of Funan reaches its zenith under the rule of Fan Shih-man
- The Goths move from Gothiscandza to Ukraine and shape the Chernyakhov culture
Significant persons
- Clement of Alexandria
- Diocletian, Roman emperor
- Diophantus of Alexandria, wrote Arithmetica
- Hippolytus, considered first Antipope
- Liu Hui, Chinese mathematician
- Mani (prophet), founder of Manichaeism
- Origen
- Pappus of Alexandria, Greek mathematician
- Plotinus, founder of Neoplatonism
- Tertullian, sometimes called father of Latin church
- Wang Pi, Taoist
- M. Sattonius Iucundus, restorer of the Thermae in Heerlen
- Zhuge Liang, known as the greatest strategist during the period of the Three Kingdoms
- Lui Bei, founding emperor of the Kingdom of Shu
- Cao Cao, founding emperor of the Kingdom of Wei
Inventions, discoveries, introductions
- A primitive form of glasses were developed for a nearsighted princess in Syria.
- Compass invented in China